Federico-thesis outline

For a Cosmology of the wireless

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 Floating networks and protocols

Conceptual Outline

How did and do (and why) wireless artifacts/tools affect the concentration of powers and knowledges?

Why do you want to write this text?

Media and medium are at the core of communication, every communication tool shapes in different way the knowledge' flow and consequently the power' flow. It's not only the wifi, the cosmology of 'older' medium such as x-rays and radio can really suggests how the wireless way to distribute knowledge (in a very broad sense) generates and shapes superstructures and platforms. Smoke signals, drums, flags, homing pigeons... outline a cosmology of wireless tools starting to investigate from ancient systems of wireless communication is aimed to understand how and why we arrived here and now with the media we use everyday. Wireless media are covered, from my perception, of a kind of magic, full of dramaturgic cues: Firstly, for a human deficit, the impossibility to watch with sightseen the exhange of data through wireless generates an almost imputable aura of mistery and I think, paradoxically, trust. These tools have the capacity to effect physical reality at a distance, and the link to a telepathy desire is strong. Using our devices as natural extension of our body in the best cyber-tradition, from a communication point of view this desire of telepathy is fully commited. The magical narration applicable on wireless could be "an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence." [Technic and Magic of F. Campagna]

Outline of Methodology

I would like to take n (n = hypothetical number) case studies of events happened through wireless and analyse them with a cosmological and forensic attitutude, having in mind the language frame (communication-codes-contents) of each case. It would be a mix of technical, social, political + politics power analysis of infastructures (architecture) and its dwelling (urbanism).

Time line

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Thesis Outline

Introduction [1000 words]

the telepathy desire, the technological landscape, the protcols and their meaning, the networks and their infrastructure, and all the power's implicancies in the middle

Chapters:

n = number of case studies

words for each chapter: 5500 words / n

Rotschild's pigeon, radio Maria hegemony, bees and microwaves, the GPS power in the contemprary control ...

Points:

• wireless ≠ hidden;
• knoweledge ≈ power;
• political power ≆ politics power;
• people ≆ humans;
• people = ecosystems' inhabitants; [beta]
• ecosystem(s) = ['humans','other animals','machines','fungi','pizza boxes','alorithms','King Ubu',...]

Conclusion [500 words]

Launch pad for (a) speculative tool(s): outlining those knowledges and powers issues >> can we embrace and experience a new dwelling of the radio waves spectrum? Think about a multitude of networks ecosystems? Build different infrastructures and inhabit them with different protocols?

Bibliography ATM (to select / delete / add):

Some of them are reading in progress

Cosmotechnic by Yuk Hui Magic and Technic by Federico Campagna Bestiario Haraway by Federica Timeto New Dark Age by James Bridle Extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling